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So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

Another great opportunity you have with a blog is opening up your organization by allowing comments and dialogue. And no, the possibility of getting a “bad&# comment is not enough to disable the option for people to share their ideas, support and encouragement. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ). MoveableType.

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What’s Your Calling?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by SMEXbeirut. His comment made me reflect over the past 32 years of working in the nonprofit sector. At SXSW and facilitating a panel called A Global Discussion About Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents , I introduced myself with this photo of me and Lena, the master trainer from Yemen for the E-Mediat Project.

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Simon Berry's Facebook Query

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He shared some thoughts about an organisational presence on Facebook in the comments on a post I wrote last week on Facebook pages/ads and wanted to elevate it from comments so we might reflect a bit further. I've tried two other Flickr to Facebook apps but they are glitchy and also don't integrate with your Facebook photos album.

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Can A Blogging Work Flow Tool Help Me Be More Productive?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It works on a number of different blogging platforms, including the one I use, typepad. Many times ideas for topics come from reader comments. I might spend a few minutes brainstorming on flickr by typing in combinations of keywords related to ideas to come up with a metaphor. will save you time and increase traffic.

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments! We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software.

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Leave a comment on a post. milllion blogs. " Think through why.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr.

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